Appearing in "Scarlet"
Featured Characters:
- Midnight Mission
- Dr. Moon / Hunter's Moon (Dr. Badr) (First appearance as Dr. Moon)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Mr. Flint
- Moon Knight (Marc Spector) (Only in recap)
- NYPD (Only in recap)
- Thunderbolt Units (Only in recap)
- U.S.Agent (John Walker) (Only in recap)
- Rhino (Aleksei Sytsevich) (Only in recap)
- Agony (Gemma Shin) (Only in recap)
- Electro (Francine Frye) (Only in recap)
- Thunderbolt Units (Only in recap)
- Hydra (Mentioned)
- Rutherford Winner (Named only)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-616
- Milky Way
- Sol
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Blue Moon Saloon (First appearance) (Unnamed)
- South Bronx
- Scarlet's Church
- Manhattan
- The Myrmidon (Mentioned)
- Westchester County
- New York City
- New York
- United States of America
- Taipei, Taiwan (Mentioned)
- North America
- Earth
- Sol
- Milky Way
Items:
- Hunter's Moon's Suit
- Hunter's Moon's Crescent Darts
- Rhino Armor (Only in recap)
- Agony Symbiote (Only in recap)
Synopsis for "Scarlet"
At the Midnight Mission, Dr. Badr meets with client Mr. Flint, as Badr substitutes as "Dr. Moon" after Mayor Wilson Fisk's crackdown on superheroes led to Marc's arrest[1] and imprisonment.[2] While no longer NYPD, Flint consults for their "Freak Beat" superhuman cases, the latest being several people slain by crossbow bolts beside the symbol of Stained Glass Scarlet (Scarlet Fasinera). Flint elaborates Scarlet Fasinera's background and past encounters with Moon Knight, plus she's been dead for two years. Noting her legacy, Flint is uncertain if she revived or if someone inherited her name and goals. But people draw her symbol and even pray by candles to her, birthing a local legend that you can kill people by praying to her. However, the presented victims were all normal citizens.
Once Hunter's Moon reached the old South Bronx church where Scarlet died, he hears her voice call to him. Demanding she reveal herself, she speaks that she is wherever her mark is, shooting a bolt arrow Hunter's Moon dodges. Curious to his piety, she drags him through the floor and recounts her story. As words hold power, the stories made of her allowed Stained Glass Scarlet to be reborn from the urban legend, one that could actually kill. Seeing a figure in a scarlet draping, Hunter's Moon attack only yields broken glass from it, as identical figures appear in place of the broken one. Scarlet elaborates that with every new person calling for her giving her life, she grows more real and deals vengeance from each summons. Shot at from all angles, Hunter's Moon removes a bolt arrow and demands to know for what does she punish him for, being a spirit of vengeance. Seeing into him and knowing of his slain vampire victims, she is free to punish him while inside the church itself.
Refusing her, Hunter's Moon opens up that he did seek to kill any vampire regardless, in vengeance for his own murder by vampires, he recognized and changed as a person who learned from his errors,[3] asking if a "story" can do the same. While a story only changes in the telling, it never learns, and Scarlet is whatever she is now, immune to blades or fists. As her power comes from faith, her story is still young, and Hunter's Moon elaborates that a god is a story told for centuries onto millennia. He brings forth Khonshu with the story of his worship, with Scarlet agitated by Hunter's Moon's "father". Although still imprisoned, Khonshu can still be summoned to an in-between space where spirits can meet, such as the abandoned church they currently preside in. As a godling born recent of human faith and desperation, Scarlet is minor compared to Khonshu, with millennia of interaction with human prayers and teachings. With no real force against a senior god, they can war only with their power.
Hunter's Moon fled by jumping out the church window, leaving them to battle for however long they may and returned to the Midnight Mission. Badr recounts events to Reese, but Badr is more scared that he punished a young god by summoning an ancient one. Following an awkward silence, Dr. Badr apologizes to Reese, but she tells him forgiveness will take time. Curious if Scarlet died, Badr states that gods can only hurt not kill each other, and she can always return so long as one person still calls to her. Such is the case, as a random man lights a candle in prayer to Stained Glass Scarlet. Meanwhile at the Ravencroft Institute, one guard yells at his coworker that a patient is not in his cell. The chided guard is not that concerned, seeing the inmate as not a threat as he was a model prisoner. The furious guard berates him, asking if he even read the rap sheet on the prisoner: an ex-Hydra assassin/terrorist, with a four digit body count, and he almost turned Taipei into glass before his incarceration in Ravencroft. Realizing the enormity of his error, the once calm guard cries out for a Red Alert, as inmate n098, Rutherford Winner, is on the loose.